The University Club
A Campus Affair
by Warren Laine-Naida
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This gastronomic campus novel follows a visiting chef as they run the obstacle course that is today’s university. A humorous and steamy look behind the scenes of food services and campus life, which will leave you glued to the pages and reaching for a second bottle of wine!
A Word from the Author
The University Club: A Campus Affair was inspired by my years working both in kitchens and at universities in North America and in Europe. Years of collected vignettes and moments, including time spent in the south of France, went into forming the four months in the life of a chef owner in a small university town. I still have some of the collection of napkins and restaurant menues on which I scribbled ideas when they came to me while I was cooking. I have always loved books about food on the one hand, and the intrigue and comedy found in the Campus Novel genre on the other. I wanted to write a novel about a campus chef – one that I would like to read, but was never able to find.
(Warren Laine-Naida, May 2020)